Over the 4th of July weekend, Chris and I joined some friends to drive down to Sendai to catch a baseball game.
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| Our hotel was about a 30 minute walk from the stadium. |
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| It was a pretty fun group of people. |
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| The beer girls wore keg backpacks so you could get a freshly poured draft beer. They carried those backpacks up and down the stadium stairs for hours, and always wore a smile. |
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| Chris is a fan, obviously. |
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| The stadium was so CLEAN. Everyone picked up their trash and brought it to these trash centers, were workers sorted out everything into recycle bins. |
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| During the seventh inning stretch, everyone in the stadium blew up red balloons and then released them together. |
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| When the home team won, the stadium released white balloons. |
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| On our walk home from the stadium, we found this great little (miniscule really) karaoke bar. We sung all the American classics as the owner of the bar conducted our harmonious voices. |
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| Karaoke should always be a group effort. |
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| The owners brought us Japanese cherries and crackers to munch on... on the house. Maybe to quiet us down for a bit? |
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| The next day, on our way out of town, we drove by some of the areas hit the hardest by the earthquake/tsunami. |
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| A sobering end to a wonderful trip. |
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